Butter-slicing machine



July 29 1924.

J. K. MEYER BUTTER SLICING MACHINE Filed Nov. 2, 19'22 I N nae/v r02 7558 06 Miss Niger ,3 Y a? 2M T' TQE/VE Y Patented July 29, 1924.

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JOSEPH KISS. MEYER, OF ST. LOUIS, IVIISS OURI, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-THIR-D T0 DAVID PELL AND ONE-THIRD TO FRED SIEGENTHALER, BOTH OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

BUITER-SLICING MACHINE.

Application filed November 2, 1922.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOSEPH Kiss MEYER, a citizen of the United States, residing at the city of St. Louis, State of Missouri, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Butter-Slicing Machines, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, forming a part thereof.

This invention relates to a certain new and useful improvement in butter-slicing or cutting machines and has for its principal object the provision of an efficient machine of the type stated which is relatively simple and inexpensive in form and construction, which is conveniently operable, and which is capable of adjustment for selectively delivering automatically slices or cuts of butter of different thickness.

lVith the above and other objects in View, my present invention resides in the novel features of form, construction, arrangement, and combination of parts hereinafter described and afterwards pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawing,

Figure 1 is a longitudinal sectional View of a butter-slicing or cutting machine embodying my invention;

Figure 2 is a plan view, partly broken away, of the machine; and I Figure 3 is a transverse sectional view of the machine on approximately the line 33, Figure 2.

Referring now more in detail and by ref- 7 erence characters to the said drawing, which illustrates a preferred embodiment of my invention, 1 indicates a suitable table or other support, disposed upon which is a pair of upstanding spaced parallel walls 2, 2, forming a butter-way opening at its outlet end to preferably an edge of table 1, as seen in Figures 1 and 2. Intermediate walls 2, table 1 is longitudinally slotted, as at 3, to provide a way or channel for a suitably elongated rod or bar 1 forming part of a ram 5 disposed for movement on table 1 transversely between the walls 2.

Fixed longitudinally upon the under face of ram-bar 4: is a rack 6, adapted for ramfeeding or propelling engagement with which is a tooth 7 carried by a bar 8 pivoted intermediate its ends, as at 9, to a bracket 10 fixed to and upon the under side of table 1, as best seen in Figures 1 and 3.

Serial No. 598,688.

The bar 8 is disposed transversely of-table l, and disposed in operable cam-actuable relation to one end of which is a wheel 11 carrying upon its one face preferably a pair of. diametrically opposite cam-members 12, 12, the wheel 11 being feathered for slidable or axially shiftable movement, for purposes shortly appearing, upon the inner end of a shaft 13 mounted longitudinally of table 1 for rotary movement in bearings 13, 13 also fixed to and upon the under side of table 1. At its outer end, shaft 13 projects beyond the edge of the table 1, as best seen in Figures 1 and 2, and has suitably fixed thereto an actuating crank 14 and a butterslicing member or blade preferably in the form of a suitable wire-strand 15 disposed tautly betweenrangular or bent end-portions 16 of a suitably elongated strip or carrier 17 ,-the blade 15, in the rotations of shaft- 13, transversely clearing the edge of table 1 and the outlet end of way 2.

Having attachment at one end to the one or toothed. end of bar 8 and at its other end to a hook or the like 18 fixed on table 1, is a preferably coiled spring 19 adapted to yieldingly maintain the bar 8 in actuable or operable engagement at its other end with the cam-face of wheel 11. Consequently, in use or operation, as the shaft 13 is rotated, each cam '12 will engage and pivotally actuate the bar 8 against the tension of spring 19 to shiftably, under the engagement of its tooth 7 with rack 6, forwardly step-by-step move the ram 5 and thereby intermittently feed the butter-block B placed for slicing in way 2 towards the outlet end thereof, the spring 19 successively retracting tooth 7 and returning the bar 8 for so intermittently propelling the ram 5 after each pivoted actuation of the bar 8 by a cam 12. Thus, on" each rotation of shaft 13, the butter block B is intermittently step-by-step fed in way 2 towards the outlet end thereof, the ram, in due course, with the tooth 7 riding over the teeth of rack 6, being manually returned to starting position. As will now be noted, the blade-carrying strip 17 is fixed centrally to shaft'13 with its bent or angular endportions 16 and with sections of blade 15 oppositely radially disposed to center oraxis 13; consequently, also on each revolution of shaft- 13, blade or wire 15 will twice traverse or cross the outlet end of the butter-way 2 and slice or cut off such portion of the butter-block B fed as described into its path. Disposed preferably at the outlet end of way 2, is a pair of tightly drawn crossed wires 20, 20, adapted to out the butter-block B as it is delivered or fed for slicing to blade 15 into relatively small blocks or portions more suitable for individual tableservice.

Suitably conjoined to, and spaced forwardly on shaft 13 from, cam-wheel 11, is a collar 21 and straddling shaft 13 intermediate cam-wheel 11 and collar 21, is the bifurcated or forked end 22 of a lever 23 projecting upwardly through a suitable aperture 24 longitudinally provided in table 1 for the purpose, and fixed to the under face of table 1 at or to one side of its aperture 24;, is a short cared plate 25, to which lever 23 is at tached for pivotal movement, as best seen in Figure 1. Fixed longitudinally to the upper face of table 1 also at or to one side of said aperture 25, is a rack 26', with which the lever 23 is adapted for locking engagement by means of oppositely acting and disposed manually-controlled pawls 27, 2?. Normally, the cam-wheel 11 by itsshifting and locking lever 23 is, say, insuch rearwardly shifted position relatively to bar 8 that its carried cam 12 will each, on the rotations of shaft 13, engage the bar 8 through out their cam faces and thereby pivotally shift bar 8 through its largest are within the limits of a particular machine, say, for instance, such an are as topropel the ram 5 through a distance of, for instance, threeteeth of rack 6011 each engagement therewith of tooth 7, the'portion of the fed butter-block B delivered to the outlet end of way 2 for slicing or cutting by the blade 15 being consequently of a corresponding predetermined certain thickness. Should it be desired to deliver a lesser or thinner portion of the fed butter-block B for slicing, pawls 27 are released from locking engagement with rack 26 and lever 23 is pivotally actuated to engage collar-21 to suitably shift the Wheel 11 forwardly of the machine away from the bar 8, when, as will be obvious, a corresponding lesser portion of the actuating face of each cam 12 will engage the bar 8 on the rotations of shaft 13, with a consequent reduction in the pivoted movement of bar 8 and in the feeding actuation of the butter-block B, the yielding movement of bar 8 towards the camwheel 11 being limited by a stop 28 fixed to and upon the under face of table 1, as best seen in Figure 2. Thus, in a simple manner and as lever 23 is rocked and as correspondingly the cam-wheel 11 is shifted within limits away from, and out of full normal position relatively to, the tooth-carrying and ramactuating bar 3, portions of varying thickness of the butter block B are selectively fed or delivered for slicing to the blade 15.

My new machine may be economically manufactured, may be operated with facility and convenience, and is exceedingly efficient in the performance of its intended functions.

I am aware that changes in the form, construction, arrangement, and combination of the several parts of my new machine may be made and substituted for those herein shown and described without departing from the nature and principle of my invention.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. A butter-slicing machine comprising a butter-Way, in combination with cuttingmeans for slicing the butter, a ram for feeding the butter in the way to the cuttingmeans, and means for feedingly actuating the ram, said actuating means including a rack on the ram, a pivoted bar adapted for tooth-engagement with the rack, and a rotary cam-wheel adapted for pivotally shifting the bar.

2. A butter-slicing machine comprising a butter-way, in combination with cuttingmeans for slicing the butter, a ram for feeding the butter in the way to the cuttingmeans, and means for feedingly actuating the ram, said actuating means including a rack on the ram, a pivoted bar adapted for tooth-engagement with the rack, a rotaryshaft, a cam-wheel on the shaft adapted for pivotally shifting the bar, and a spring for yieldingly maintaining the bar in actuable engagement with the cam-wheel.

3. A butter-slicing machine comprising a butter-way, in combination with cuttin means for slicing the butter, a ram for feet ing the butter in the way to the cutting means, means including a cam-actuated pivoted bar adapted for engagement with the ram for feedingly step-by-step actuating the same, and means for adjustably varying the throw of the bar for selectively cont-rolling the step-by-step distance of travel of the ram to deliver different thicknesses of the butter for slicing by the cutting-means.

In testimony whereof, I have signed my name to this specification.

JOSEPH KISS MEYER. 

